To educate children and young people towards human perfection as global citizens, with integrity, who investigate and undertake to consolidate their life project, respectful of individual differences in order to collectively build a better society and contribute to sustainable development
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The José Joaquín Casas Gymnasium is projected to the year 2027 as a national reference for quality education: inclusive, sustainable, intercultural and with an international perspective
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In 1959 the GIMNASIO JOSÉ JOAQUÍN CASAS was founded, an educational project that began with forty children, being a seedbed of the highest quality. Its founder Jaime Leal Gonzalez stamped a seal of intellectuality and quality based on the Salesian principles of accompaniment, respect, good treatment and healthy living as fundamental pillars of human dignity.
Walking with a firm step under the conviction that every reality must be changed to improve in order to find the best way to HUMAN PERFECTION. Doctor Leal managed to build in a spacious but austere headquarters (built with own resources), three generations of dignified, respectful, enterprising Colombians have passed through this place, who today lead with courage and in defense of the public interest institutions and companies.
A history of 66 years and 58 promotions that have lived the history of the country and from the classrooms work together to continue transforming the Colombian society always with the Forehead Straight to Heaven, The Step Never Behind!
The communications area of the Gymnasium keeps a photographic archive of the history of the Gymnasium.